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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI organization. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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Allow using “GCS Staging” when reading from Google BigQuery using read-method "General"

When using the Google BigQuery connector in read-method "Select Statement" it is possible to configure a bucket (Google Cloud Storage = GCS) for better performance. When using the read-method "General" such a configuration is not available. It wou...
11 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Under review

Dimension file checking mechanism

We had a case .dim file broken after a reboot, "broken" means we can start tm1 instanace with no any error related to dimension but we found some data loss when checking data from cube view, and we tried we need to retore .dim files from backup th...
11 months ago in Planning Analytics 4 Not under consideration

Query optimization by not creating an extra query for summaries

In reports running with full interactivity having a dimensional source (DMR or Cube) you need to use the built in summary function in order to have a summary. This since any drill-downs will create a new data item and you can't reference a specifi...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

PA Workspace: Enhance Trace Cell function

Please add following possibilities to the trace cell feature: Zero suppression must be enabled! Enable Drill Through within trace cell function Possibility to export results Possibility to use the filter criteria of a traced cell into the explora...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Vertical Scroll Bar color in List Visualization

In Dashboarding the List Visualization displays a vertical scroll bar. When using a dark color background for the List Visualization the scroll bar remains white. This makes the Visualization visually unappealing. Request that the scroll bar color...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Delay the insert into PLAN_TABLE, if EXPLAIN MODE is YES

We want to use SET CURRENT EXPLAIN MODE = YES in long running jobs like DSNTIAUL or DSNTEP2 to get more information, what was going on. If these jobs only ran select-statements a long running UOR is generated, because the insert of the access path...
over 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Lists, crosstabs, charts, tables resize with mouse

It would be muche easer to create reports if we could change size of objects by using just mouse (no property settings by entering high and wight).We can do this with Visualizations but for some reason this does not work with other objects (tables...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Expose Dimension subsets in Cognos Package.

Expose Dimension subsets in Cognos Package.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Allow Wildcards in ADMIN_GET_TAB_% functions

Example: if one uses a query like this:SELECT ... FROM TABLE(SYSPROC.ADMIN_GET_TAB_COMPRESS_INFO('SCHEMA1', '')) WHERE TABNAME LIKE 'ABC%' The Function will run for all tables in the given schema and after that will filter the output for predicate...
almost 9 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

DC Searching for members takes a long time

Using a Dynamic Cube and searching for member caption or any other attribute is taking a massive amount of time from Reports. If you search for one member its fine but searching for several at the same time (more than 10) in a dimension with 200.0...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration